What’s the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite?
The meteorite only lives as it is falling.
Tag: meteor
A Japanese company wants to sell on-demand fake meteor showers — but scientists aren’t happy
But this could spell trouble for some satellites.
Geoscience Australia confirms — last night’s tremor caused by asteroid impact
Monday night, a meteor put on a big show above Queensland.
Artificial meteor shower might open the Japan 2020 Olympic Games
One Japanese startup is planning one hell of a fireworks show for the official opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic ...
Skydiver nearly struck by meteor, catches it all on film
Anders Helstrup and several other members of Oslo Parachute Club were expecting a good time, and no major events when ...
Meteoroid that caused massive damage in Russia fully described
At the beginning of the year the most powerful meteoroid strike since the infamous Tunguska event took place in Russia, ...
Meteor impact in Canada may have triggered the Big Freeze that caused mass extinction and forced humans into agriculture
The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass ...
Tunguska event was caused by meteor strike, rock sample analysis finds
You may have heard about the Tunguska event - a huge blast of energy which occurred in 1908 over Russia and flattened ...
Meteor crash on the moon causes biggest explosion since monitoring
In March, a medium sized meteorite slammed into the moon's surface causing the greatest explosion observed thus far, ever since ...
NASA radar observation shows asteroid 2012 DA14 flyby [VIDEO]
I realize we're maybe bugging some of you with these constant asteroid/meteor pieces here on ZME Science, but for what's ...
A map of every meteor strike since 2300 BC
The recent historical flyby of 2012 D14 - the largest asteroid ever to pass this close to Earth in recorded ...
Don’t miss this weekend’s Orionids meteor shower peak
Since last Sunday, Halley's comet offspring have been swirling through the night sky delighting star gazers all around the world. This coming ...
Biggest moon rock auctioned so far set to fetch $380,000
This four pound geological marvel, captioned above, is what's commonly reffered to as a lunar meteorite. And like all things ...
The Lyrid Meteor Shower – not to be missed this weekend
A moonless night might offer the best setting for the best view of the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower in years ...
Stunning photos of the Perseid meteor shower
I was lucky enough this weekend to be away from the city and at an altitude of about 1800m, deep ...
[VIDEO] Man-sized meteor over Georgia sky
In a relevant display of NASA's fireball-observing network capabilities, a set of automatic robotic cameras caught a man-sized meteor as ...
Shorties: 4.5 billion meteorite shows new mineral
A recently analyzed 4.5 billion years old meteorite yields one of the oldest minerals known in our solar system: krotite. ...
New craters sighted on Mars [PICS]
Last year, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s low-res, grayscale Context camera cought a ...
Geminids to offer another thrilling night for stargazers
The strangest meteor shower one can observe every year is almost upon us. Geminids is the only meteor shower that ...
Dramatic fireball flies above Arizona
I'm really sorry I didn't find out about this earlier, but better late than never. So, on June 23, several ...